is love for music began when he was very young. His home was a breeding ground which encouraged him for choosing a profession which makes him now stand out as one of the great musicians of the last two decades.

Son of Joaquín and Aída and brother of Claudina, he was born in the neighborhood of La Paternal, but a few years later his family moved to the neighborhood of Caballito. His elementary and secondary school studies were at an institute of his neighborhood, the Colegio Marianista.

At the time he played games at the Club Ferro Carril Oeste he began to study guitar, but soon thereafter he switched to the instrument which accompanies him until today, the piano.

Maestro Carlos Piegari was the one who most influenced him, without forgetting another great musician with formal training: Roberto Caamaño. The great composer and pianist Sebastián Piana, realizing his capacity for learning, introduced him to tango.

He studied at the Universidad Católica Argentina and graduated as Bachelor in Composition and, later, as profesor nacional de piano (piano teacher) at the IUNA (Instituto Universitario Nacional de Arte).

He won a scholarship of the Instituto Italiano de Cultura to study composition with maestro Giacomo Manzoni and electroacoustic music with maestro Bianchinni. He studied orchestral conduction with maestro Mario Benzecry, which brought him a different vision regarding musical conducting.

He furthered his tango and piano studies with Nicolás Ledesma and had seminars with another pianist, Oscar de Elía.

His output as composer and pianist encompasses music for advertising, orchestral and chamber music.

He also studied another style (jazz) to further his knowledge with maestro Santiago Giaccobe.

He got several awards for different pieces, one of them was Sonata para piano El Loco, for which he was given a special mention by musical promotions.

The composer and pianist Gerardo Gandini conducted and premiered his piece for sextet “La Venice de l’ouest” which was finalist at the contest organized by the Fundación Omega.

He took part for six days, along with a big group of Argentine musicians and artists, at the Les Allumès International Festival, in the city of Nantes (France), representing Buenos Aires in a cultural interchange between both cities.

In 2009 he won the first prize for an instrumental composition at the XVII Certamen Hugo del Carril, organized by the Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, with his tango “Ayer y hoy”.

In 2012, and sponsored by the Fondo Metropolitano de las Artes of the city of Buenos Aires, he recorded his first album Ayer y hoy, mis tangos, with pieces of his own.

He carried out his musical activity at different places of the Buenos Aires circuit: the Esquina Homero Manzi, Pan y Arte, Centro Cultural Marcó del Pont, Los 36 billares, Academia Porteña del Lunfardo, among others.

He is pianist at the notable barroom, Café La Poesía, which is until today, his musical haven on Tuesdays for the pleasure of the customers.

He was educator at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, the Universidad Católica Argentina and, at present, is master pianist of the Escuela de Danzas nº 1 and director of the orchestras of the Escuela de Música nº 12 of the school district 19, and of the Escuela de Coro y Orquesta Athos Palma of the Instituto Bernasconi of Buenos Aires.

In 2013 he organized the event De músicos, poetas y locos todos tenemos un poco, at the Academia Porteña del Lunfardo in which important figures of tango and folk music like Raúl Garello, Atilio Stampone and Juan Carlos Saravia have appeared as guests.

In 2014 he was appointed Académico de Número of the Academia Porteña del Lunfardo. That same year he was summoned by the University of Graceland, in the state of Iowa, in the United States, for chats, classes and presentations. For that purpose he called the violinist Mariana Cañardo. They extended their shows also to the city of New York.

Because of these appearances, they released a CD, in 2015, entitled Tango en los Estados Unidos, Placenti-Cañardo, recorded live.

In 2016 he released his fourth album Tango Suite Puertas Abiertas, with his new group that includes: Adrián Placenti (piano, bass, compositions, leadership and arrangements), Mariana Cañardo (violin), Johana Brundo (flute), Miguel Frasca (bandoneon), Eduardo Barilari (guitar) and the singers Grisel Bercovich and Alfredo Pittis as guest artists.

It is a very important career of one of the young men who still has much to contribute to this so special present period of our tango.